On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 4:20 PM, James Simmons <[email protected]> wrote: > All, > Speech-dispatcher was used by the earliest version of Read Etexts to support > speech. The big downside is that you need to configure it. When you > install the RPM for it it installs espeak, Festival, and some other stuff > too. Aleksey Lim created the gstreamer plugin, and also modified Read > Etexts so that it could use either speech-dispatcher or gstreamer. I prefer > gstreamer myself because it Just Works. I've heard nice things about > Festival voices but I never got them working. > James Simmons
I did quite a bit of work on speech-dispatcher a couple of releases ago and I believe (from testers on bugreports) that it mostly just works out of the box now for most standard use cases. Peter > On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 6:21 AM, Gonzalo Odiard <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> There's also speech-dispatcher which is an option (and which I think >>> was used by OLPC quite some time ago). >>> >>> Petr >>> >> >> Yes. I like the possibility of using not only espeak but festival too, >> but right now will be add another dependency. >> >> I have heard very nice examples of Festival voices, >> but I have tried using Festival from the python api of speech-dispatcher >> without success. >> >> In F16 if I do: >> >> [gonzalo@nautilus honey]$ python >> Python 2.7.2 (default, Oct 27 2011, 01:40:22) >> [GCC 4.6.1 20111003 (Red Hat 4.6.1-10)] on linux2 >> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >> >>> >> ... >> >>> import speechd >> >>> client = speechd.SSIPClient('test') >> >>> client.list_output_modules() >> ('espeak', 'dummy') >> >> I have installed: >> >> [root@nautilus /]# rpm -qa | grep festival >> festival-freebsoft-utils-0.10-2.fc15.noarch >> festival-1.96-18.fc16.x86_64 >> festival-speechtools-libs-1.2.96-18.fc16.x86_64 >> festival-lib-1.96-18.fc16.x86_64 >> >> [root@nautilus /]# rpm -qa | grep speech >> speech-dispatcher-0.7.1-6.fc16.x86_64 >> festival-speechtools-libs-1.2.96-18.fc16.x86_64 >> speech-dispatcher-python-0.7.1-6.fc16.x86_64 >> >> Do you know if I need install anything more? >> >> Gonzalo >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Sugar-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel >> > > _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
